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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, The Fish of My Dreams.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT one of the things that makes the valley Corbett fishes in so pleasant?
(a) None of the above.
(b) The perfume of the flowers.
(c) The abundant wildlife.
(d) The mountains nearby.

2. What does Corbett say he has noted about the coats of man-eaters?
(a) They have a tendency to be mangy.
(b) They have all been remarkably fine.
(c) They smell.
(d) The tigers often have bald spots.

3. What reason did Corbett find for the tiger in Mohan to have become a man-eater?
(a) A bullet in his shoulder.
(b) An old hip fracture.
(c) Broken teeth.
(d) Porcupine quills in his foreleg.

4. Which of the following best characterizes the size of the fish Corbett catches?
(a) Large.
(b) Medium sized.
(c) Huge.
(d) Small.

5. What does Corbett find when he goes to investigate a report of a tiger killing a cow in a village near to Champawat?
(a) No information that could explain what happened.
(b) A cow killed by a leopard.
(c) Evidence that it was the man-eater tigress.
(d) Indication it was one of the man-eater tigress's cubs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What affect did the tiger turning on her have on the sister that pursued it?

2. Why does Corbett ask that the government rewards for the Champawat Man-eater be cancelled?

3. What had killed the cow that Corbett investigates when looking for the Chowgarh man-eater?

4. Which of the following, according to Corbett, best characterizes a tiger?

5. What indication does Corbett find that the latest victim of the tiger was not looked for after being taken?

(see the answer key)

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